(01-08) 18:44 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- No need to put away those sunbathing towels just yet.

That spattering of rain that fell from what looked like heavy clouds over the past couple of days was just that - a spattering. And except for another possible drizzle on Saturday, there is no other rain in sight, weather forecasters said Wednesday.

That means the state is still on a dusty path toward drought thanks to a rainy season that has yet to truly materialize.

"It would take several big storms for us to avoid a dry year," said Nancy Vogel, spokeswoman for the California Department of Water Resources. "Things are so dry, the soils are so dry, that a single storm wouldn't do much to build our snowpack and refill our reservoirs."

The state's largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, is only 37 percent full - or 57 percent of normal for this time of year.

The drizzles that began in Northern California on Tuesday night only dropped about 100th of an inch of rain in most places by the time they petered out Wednesday afternoon, said Diana Henderson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.

San Francisco got that 0.01 of an inch. Half Moon Bay hit the high point for the region with 0.02 of an inch, and the North Bay area around Santa Rosa got nothing.

"That rain pretty much just spit on us and moved on," said Henderson. She said there is a 40 percent chance of light drizzle on Saturday evening in the Bay Area, but after that it's back to sunny skies.

So far, San Francisco has had just 20 percent of its normal rainfall for this time of year, the weather service reported. Sonoma County is at 12 percent, and San Jose is at 27 percent.